Games like Role of Hex
If Role of Hex is your kind of game, the closest matches are BattleGrounds : War, Tanks And Nukes, Rogue Door Defense and Terrafort — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Role of Hex: Role of Hex is a real-time strategy game where you defend your hexagonal base from the dangers of the universe. Gather upgrades and unlock special buildings to survive this hostile land as endless waves of enemies approach. But be quick, time is ticking and the waves are getting bigger.
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BattleGrounds : War, Tanks And Nukes
WHY THIS
Top pick for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
A military styled action tower-defence game filled with nukes, missiles and tanks. Improve your building, canons and tanks. Purchase stronger ammunition and survive the next wave. Highly replayable, tough and addictive.The fun never ends
Rogue Door Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Role of Hex.
Second-strongest match for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Role of Hex.
Rogue Door Defense is a tower defense mazing game with rogue-lite elements. Choose a door, defeat the enemies behind it and claim your unique reward. Build and upgrade different towers. Design your own maze to defend your lives against the attacking waves of monsters and powerful bosses.
Creator-initial
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Ranked #4 for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
A real -time strategy game that can create items to operate logic.No resource collection
Byte Lynx
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Role of Hex.
Ranked #5 for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
Rogue Station
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Role of Hex.
Ranked #6 for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Role of Hex.
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Role of Hex.
Ranked #7 for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Taur
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Shares a challenging mood with Role of Hex.
Ranked #8 for Role of Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
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Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Role of Hex.
Reviewers of Role of Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Role of Hex.
Reviewers of Role of Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Role of Hex.
Reviewers of Role of Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Role of Hex at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Role of Hex.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Role of Hex.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Role of Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Role of Hex.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Role of Hex.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Role of Hex.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Role of Hex.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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Frequently asked about Role of Hex
- How much does Role of Hex cost?
- Role of Hex is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Role of Hex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Role of Hex are BattleGrounds : War, Tanks And Nukes, Rogue Door Defense, Terrafort.
- Who developed Role of Hex?
- Role of Hex was developed by Verde.
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